Minas dos Carris - 25/10/2008

Certo dia 7 corajosos caminheiros lançaram-se na aventura de subir às Minas dos Carris no Gerês! Não foi tarefa fácil, piso sinuoso e tal...mas sem dúvida que os 7 corajosos caminheiros foram recompensados com a maravilhosa paisagem e vista lá em cima, já para não falar no silêncio, o qual teima em fazer-se "ouvir"!
Certo fica que é um passeio recomendável, mas atenção, só para caminheiros corajosos!!!

Para as estatísticas fica a contar o seguinte:

- Partida da Portela do Homem às 9:50h
- Chegada às Minas de Carris às 12:50h
- Regresso às 14:35h
- Chegada à Portela do Homem às 17:25h

Tudo junto temos então:

- 5:45h a caminhar
- 1:54h de pausas para descansar, lanchar e almoçar
- 23,7km percorridos (a pé!!!)
- 1440m altura atingida
- 710m subidos

E em seguida as provas do "crime"...não vá alguém achar que é tudo invenção nossa!!!

1º stop numas lagoas, 40 min. após a partida

Cá está o piso sinuoso...

2º Stop a meio de caminho para reabastecer as baterias...já só falta 1:30h :)

Eis um exemplo da bela paisagem...

Qualquer caminheiro corajoso tem direito ao seu descanso após o almoço à base de sandes etc. Afinal ainda faltava o regresso!!! (para quem não sabe, era outro tanto, só que a descer ;) )

Este é o fotógrafo/organizador da caminhada corajosa...

Um dos caminheiros corajosos...autor do hino...(a ver mais à frente!)

Umas xicosisses do fotógrafo...

E cá estão os corajosos 7 na hora de enfrentarem os pedregulhos do regresso...;p

Corajosos 7 cumprem missão, são e salvos!

No Gerês éramos 7

Sem chouriço nem omeletes

Onde estão meus companheiros

Todos bem, todos inteiros!
(O Hino!)

Holidays 2008 (Finally :p)

Uiiiiiiiii...really sorry for the delay...but here they are, at last, the pictures of this year's holidays.

Well, the whole thing about this year's holidays is kind of strange. First, we were supposed to go on another trip around Europe, as it has been usual :), this time for three long weeks crossing all over Europe until Trondheim...well...didn't work, changing job shortly before holidays makes it difficult to get 3 weeks. So we changed to plan B, that is, crossing all over Europe until Switzerland and back in 2 weeks. However, this turned out to be impossible as well, since two little girls decided to leave their mummies' bellies right during our supposed second holiday week...hmmmmm getting difficult :p ... so, plan C was left only...we went to Peniche (in Portugal :D) for 4 days...well...could be worse...hihi...enjoy the pictures :)

The 4 travellers

Our nice hotel

1st dinner @ a restaurant

@ the beach

while some work...

...the other rest :D

2nd dinner, @ "home"....yamiiiii

Preparing for the game (ladies win :p)

@ beach again

well...hmm??

Last lunch before going home...

And that's it... hope you liked it ;)

Hino da Liga dos Campeões no Afonso Henriques :D

Não há dúvida que foi um momento único...
Dependendo do segundo jogo, poderemos ter de esperar muito tempo antes de termos a oportunidade de ouvir este hino novamente no nosso estádio!
No entanto, aconteça o que acontecer, esta já é nossa, ninguém nos pode tirar: O hino da Liga dos Campeões pôde ser ouvido, alto e bom som, no nosso D. Afonso Henriques.

Eu estive lá! Foi LINDO!
(Pronto pá, desculpem lá a qualidade de imagem...a minha L11, tadinha, fez o que pôde!)

Digam lá que não é fantástico:




Ceux sont les meilleurs equipes,
Es sind die aller besten Mannschaften, the main event.
Die Meister, die Besten, les meilleurs equipes, the champions.
Les grandes et les meilleurs!
Eine grosse stattliche Veranstaltung, the main event:
These are the men,
Sie sind die Besten,
These are the champions!
Die Meister, die Besten, les meilleurs equipes, the champions.
Die Meister, die Besten, les meilleurs equipes, the champions.

Vitória S.C. 0:0 FC Basel - 13.08.2008

Bem, cá estão algumas fotos deste jogo fantástico (hmm...mais ou menos pronto :p)...

Nada está decidido, portanto o sonho continua!

A BETTER WORLD

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person

;)

Cats in Portuguese

Last weekend was a fantastic weekend for me. I was given the opportunity of taking part on a reproduction of the Cats Musical. It was pretty hard work, especially because we didn’t have much time to prepare the whole thing. However, it all went very well, everybody liked it very much and now we are just hoping to be allowed to do it again. Who knows…. ;)

Feel free to take a look at the pictures of the event on the link below. The blog is written in Portuguese, so some of you may not understand what’s written, but you may still look at the pictures, as they are, in fact, the most important thing!

Have fun!

Cats in Portuguese

Big Kiss

Cats à Portuguesa

18 e 19 de Julho de 2008
Auditório da Universidade do Minho (Guimarães)

Não percam!!!

GO P O R T U G A L GO ! ! !

We are the world ! ! !

Tóóóóóóóóóóória ! ! !

Music rules ! ! !

Hmmm....

[...]
"Significa que eu não acredito no Deus da Bíblia."
"Qual é a diferença?"
Ouviu-se um suspiro.
"Sabe, na minha infância eu era um menino muito religioso. Mas, aos doze anos, comecei a ler livros científicos, daqueles popularuchos, não sei se conhece..."
"Sim..."
"... e cheguei a conclusão de que a maior parte das histórias da Bíblia não passavam de narrativas míticas. Deixei de ser um crente quase de um dia para o outro. Pus-me a pensar bem no assunto e apercebi-me de que a ideia de um Deus pessoal é um bocado ingénua, infantil até."
"Porquê?"
"Porque se trata de um conceito antropomórfico, uma fantasia criada pelo homem para tentar influenciar o seu destino e buscar consolo nas horas difíceis. Como nós não podemos interferir com a natureza, criámos esta ideia de que ela é gerida por um Deus benevolente e paternalista que nos ouve e que nos guia. É uma ideia muito reconfortante, não lhe parece? Criámos a ilusão de que, se rezarmos muito, conseguiremos que Ele controle a natureza e satisfaça os nossos desejos, assim por artes mágicas. Quando as coisas correm mal, e como não compreendemos que um Deus tão benevolente o tenha permitido, dizemos que isso deve obedecer a um qualquer desígnio misterioso e ficamos assim mais confortados. Ora, isso não faz sentido, não lhe parece?"
[...]

[...]
"Acredito no Deus de Espinosa, que se revela na ordem harmoniosa daquilo que existe. Admiro a beleza e a lógica simples do universo, creio num Deus que se revela no universo, ..."
[...]

In Formula de Deus (José Rodrigues dos Santos - p. 18 + 2o)

[...]

"E é este o argumento que faltava e que, aos olhos do professor Siza, veio transformar o Princípio Antrópico em prova da existência de Deus. O universo foi concebido com um engenho tal que denuncia inteligência e com uma afinação tal que denuncia um propósito. A nossa existência não tem a mínima hipótese de ser acidental pelo simples facto de que tudo está determinado desde o início."
[...]

In Formula de Deus (José Rodrigues dos Santos - p. 515)

Fair enough, isn't it?

I do not! And you???

A good friend...

In Kindergarten your idea of a good friend, was the person who let you have the red pencil when all that was left was the ugly black one.

In first grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who went to the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the scary halls.

In second grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who helped you stand up to the class bully.

In third grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who shared his / her lunch with you when you forgot yours on the bus.

In fourth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who was willing to switch square dancing partners in gym, so you wouldn’t have to be stuck do-si-do-ing with nasty ‘Nicky’ or smelly ‘Susan’.

In fifth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who saved a seat on the back of the bus for you.

In sixth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who went up to ‘Nicky’ or ‘Susan’, your new crash, and asked him or her to dance with you, so that if he or she said no you wouldn’t have to be embarrassed.

In seventh grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who helped you pack up your stuffed animals and old baseball, but didn’t laugh at you when you finished and broke out into tears.

In eighth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who let you copy the social studies homework from the day before that you had.

In ninth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who would go to a party thrown by a senior so you wouldn’t wind up being the only freshman there.

In tenth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who changed his / her schedule so you wouldn’t be alone at lunch.

In eleventh grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who gave you rides on his / her new car, convinced your parents that you shouldn’t be grounded, consoled you when you broke up with ‘Nick’ or ‘Susan’, and found you a date to the prom.

In twelfth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who helped you pick out a College / University, assured you that you would get into that College / University, helped you deal with your parents who were having a hard time adjusting to the idea of letting you go…

At graduation your idea of a good friend, was the person who was crying on the inside but managed the biggest smile one could give as he / she congratulated you.

The summer after twelfth grade your idea of a good friend, was the person who helped you clean up the bottles from ‘that’ party, helped you sneak out of the house when you just couldn’t deal with your parents, assured you that now that you and ‘Nick’ or you and ‘Susan’ were back together, you could make it through anything, helped you pack up for University and just silently hugged you as you looked through blurry eyes at 18 years of memories you were leaving behind, and finally on those last days of childhood, went out of his / her way to give you reassurance that you would make it in College as well as you had these past 18 years, and most importantly, sent you off to college knowing you were loved.

Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the better of two choices, who holds your hand when you’re scared, helps you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten, helps you put the past behind you, but understands when you need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have confidence, goes out of his / her way to make time for you, helps you clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others, smiles for you when he / she is sad, helps you become a better person, and most importantly, LOVES YOU !

"Gente Humilde" - Chico Buarque

PS: Sorry for those who don't understand it...but this song is just beautiful! :)

Happy Valentine's Day !!!

ELI the Eliphant

CARNIVAL 2008

As promised...here we are, the BECA m&m's! ;D

And Putchi m&m as well, of course! ;p

Let's go back in time... ;p

Carnival is arriving...let's have a look at how it was some years ago...

This was in 2004, it was a kind of a 2 in 1, because Carnival was on the same day as Zé's 30th birthday...so...we had a big party :)

One year later, 2005, aaaaaaaaarg...get out of our way...the vamps are coming!

2006 was a kind of a "back" to the future...lol...that's how we will look like in 70 years...;p

And last year, 2007, we decided to go to the army...

Even Putchi had his special suit...hihi

Well...this year we have something nice in mind...so...keep looking up our blog...there will be news soon :D